I'm embarrassed. We just dug up a strip of lawn next to the south fence, threw in some poo + compost etc followed by seeds.
It is really productive, weeds come up so fast I have to tell visitors "that's actually a vege garden".
Veges grow well too.
We had lots of grassgrub at the start so I turned the ground over many times to let the birds get them. Slugs were picked off at nights with a torch, very easy. They are not around much this year, too dry perhaps.